Live Your Life with Gratitude and Grace

Living With Gratitude and Grace offers a way for us to change our perspective on life and to quiet unhealthy thought and behavior patterns. Dr. Steffen holds the belief that everything in life is relational. She provides us with a way to change our point of view and create an integrative approach to living. Her ground breaking methods help the reader improve their personal relationships, make healthier life choices, and to develop a philosophy for living based on choice that is sustainable. If you are wanting to create a wellness lifestyle this book will help guide and teach you how to connect brain health, and mental and emotional wellbeing to your physical and spiritual health. For each of these important life areas she provides bible passages combined with reflections and secular quotes to delve deeper into these concepts as you develop a healthier approach to living. Integrating holistic health into everyday living, will assist you in focusing on total wellness. In today's world, It isn't enough to be resilient, one must have the ability to sustain that resilience, and effectively manage emotions, stress, and life challenges. The Big Five of Health Relationships is a conceptual model that can be used to assess a variety of relationships with friends, family, coworkers, and intimate partners. It provides a practical way to explore and consider whether these crucial elements of health are present in your significant relationships. The Cognitions of Choice (COC) model developed by Dr. Steffen provides you with the tools to learn about your thinking process and to better understand how it is connected to how you manage and regulate emotions. The COC model will provide understanding and help you learn how to move automatic thoughts that can be unhealthy into a conscious choice that supports wellness. Through each step, you will learn how to invite, investigate, and initiate new choice thinking. The combination of COC and an integrative-sustainable approach to living builds off of information models that help us understand how we process cognition, and how this influences our behaviors and beliefs. You will learn how to connect to meta-thinking, and ultimately utilize mindfulness in your everyday life. Understanding how thinking, feeling, and behavior impact underlying beliefs is crucial in changing old patterns of thoughts that fuel poor life choices. Living with Gratitude and Grace will provide you with the mental adjustment needed to improve your life, build healthy relationships, and to choose an integrative-sustainable philosophy for living based upon a wellness perspective that is driven by choice. The practical book provides insight and practical application in the following areas: • Brain Health • Diet and Nutrition • Exercise • Spiritual Health • Integrative-Sustainability: A New Model for Developing You Wellness Lifestyle • The Big Five of Healthy Relationships • Applying the Cognitions of Choice: To Create a Philosophy for Living • Conclusion and Final Words of Encouragement